Bob Owens

When lying is in your DNA, it becomes difficult to stop

Written By: Bob
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Sep•
21•12

Ambassador Chris Stevens was murdered in a terrorist attack in Benghazi. The entire world knows it. Barack Obama can’t bring himself to admit it.

During his Univision interview—the only substantive interview he’s faced from the media during his entire Presidency—President Obama found it impossible to comment honestly on the Benghazi consulate terror attack, as a terror attack:

After the White House for the first time Thursday explicitly called the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya an act of terror, President Obama ducked an opportunity to clear up the confusion about the ever-changing narrative — appearing to hold firm to the story that an anti-Islam film was to blame.

The president spoke Thursday at a town hall hosted by the Spanish-language Univision. He declined to get into specifics, even as lawmakers said after an intelligence briefing that there clearly was “some pre-planning” in last week’s deadly attack.

Instead, Obama launched into an explanation about how the U.S. saw something it’s seen before, where “there is an offensive video or cartoon directed at the Prophet Muhammad” and that is used “as an excuse by some to carry out inexcusable violent acts” against the U.S.

Obama stressed that we’re “still doing an investigation” and said he didn’t know whether Al Qaeda was involved.

The obscure film had nothing to do with the attack, there was no protest prior, and the mastermind behind the assassination of Ambassador Stevens was a terrorist released from Guantanamo Bay.